Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

The Washington State legislature passed House Bill 1155, aka the My Health, My Data Act , last week. The bill expands privacy protections for Washington State’s health citizens beyond HIPAA’s provisions. ” That could include such data tags as cookie identifiers, device identifiers, and IP addresses.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 14, 2020

Accountable Care Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Workflow More than ever, the system selected to provide telemedicine services must provide added controls to overcome factors that are outside the control of the provider. Telemedicine has added factors in care delivery. Collaboration is key in vendor selection.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 11, 2020

Telehealth Women In Health IT Workforce The pandemic has underlined the importance of nurses working together and ensuring we are better prepared for any future crisis, as highlighted during the 'European Nurses Facing COVID-19' webinar. Similarities in cross-border community challenges.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 12, 2023

Not surprisingly, a search for ‘chatbots and older adults’ reveals research studies targeting those aged 60+, startup investment, for example, Lena , which evolved into Lena Health for scheduling appointments , and a small study about what makes a compelling chatbot. Human Good jumps right into live chat about finding a community.

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JULY 26, 2023

Long forgotten now, it was briefly in Wikipedia to define the benefit of a continuing care retirement community where you did not have to leave the community if you required higher levels of care. Or will they want to move to some sort of senior-living community, average age 84 , with activities and shared meals?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Connected Health Government & Policy Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth The fate of virtual care adoption is tied to the fate of broadband expansion. "Broadband is now revered as the super-social determinant of health because it has a direct impact on all of the other social determinants of health."

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 21, 2022

Consider voice-enabled smart plugs, thermostats, audio books, traffic directions, weather, and news updates – and answers to questions that might matter about health, social connection, and personal safety. As a result, they may not be focused on enabling resident broadband in their communities.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 27, 2022

We know that one of the biggest issues in senior living (and home care, nursing homes, home health care) today is a shortage of labor. In the for-profit area, senior living operators and REITs see disruption and opportunity in the growing number of (unregulated) 55+ communities and some have invested accordingly.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 9, 2020

" As health systems adjusted to dramatic increases in virtual visits, they experienced a steep learning curve in a very short time. The most mature health systems recognize the importance of context and design their telehealth programs accordingly. For most health systems, telehealth is work-in-progress at best.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 30, 2023

Government & Policy Population Health Telehealth The National Telecommunications and Information Administration is funding new efforts to help counties and municipalities build high-speed broadband networks. billion to communities to help residents with training, digital literacy, and fighting the digital divide.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

According to the 2020 Senior Living, COVID-19 and Technology Survey and Report , over a third of communities reported having poor or nonexistent Wi-Fi and bandwidth capability." category tags: Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , SNF , wearables , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , IoT and home monitoring.

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 17, 2024

Call for Proposals Now Open to Digital Health Startups to Compete on the CharmHealth Ecosystem PLEASANTON, Calif.–(BUSINESS –(BUSINESS WIRE)– #AI — CharmHealth , a leader in healthcare technology solutions for providers, today announced the kickoff of its 2024 Innovation Challenge. 23-25, 2024, in Washington, D.C.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

The President’s Budget also includes $150 billion over the next decade to improve and expand Medicaid home care services —making it easier for seniors and people with disabilities to live, work, and participate in their communities. category tags: caregivers , Family caregivers , Home Care , computers, broadband, and social networking

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 19, 2023

Consider Optum’s acquisition of Amedisys home health business. Without a standard set of data about residents, including staff scheduling, care plans, and communication with families – it’s hard to know if a community or agency is profitable until it’s too late. Note its 2015 $72.5 Data, of course, is the backbone of AI.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

For low-income individuals, home and community based services may have a 3-year wait to obtain them. Or the tech-powering of home health and home care agencies (soon?) category tags: Home Care , smart home , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , senior living Further, 42% of women aged 75+ live alone.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 15, 2022

From appointment booking to post-discharge follow-up, hospitals and health systems are striving to innovate and personalize the way people navigate their care journey. News The future of healthcare: What 2022 could bring A look ahead at what the uptick in interest and usage of digital health will mean for the future of. The office.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2020

Layla McCay ‘Necessity is the mother of invention’ is an old proverb proving true as health services across the world race to adapt to manage the challenges of the current coronavirus pandemic. During the coronavirus pandemic, digital innovation and transformation is arriving at pace in health systems in the UK and beyond.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

So by late 2020, EVERYBODY wants to age in place – an unprecedented trend, says Rock Health – and health innovators have taken note. million reside in nursing homes and approximately 800,000 living in senior living communities (average resident age is 87 ). Aging in place forever – the concept. By 2013, The U.S. Rant off.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 24, 2023

The following domains will add AI (via voice or other interaction modes) to services, including: Health management of self-care, enabling conversational access. Long-term care communities use AI from firms like EarlySense for incident alerting or VirtuSense for prediction and fall avoidance.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In this regularly updated special collection, we explore how hospitals and health systems are rolling out RPM initiatives: where they're seeing hurdles, which use cases are most successful, how they're getting help from their vendors, what policy and regulatory imperatives may be shaping the future of virtual care, and much more.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 27, 2023

AI will likely be part of the next generation of user interfaces for all types of interactions – including health questions. Training an AI chatbot on the various services and schedules offered by a senior living community will be required. AI chatbots will be built into senior living concierge services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 27, 2023

Artificial Intelligence Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Telehealth Workflow Workforce A balanced approach to deploying new IT that reduces the burden on employees and provides patients with enhanced services is key to stabilizing and advancing healthcare industry processes.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 9, 2021

Now that’s possible, but no longer remarkable once a smart speaker is in the person’s unit and the community has decided to voice-enable itself. Furthermore, senior living communities also quickly adopted Zoom and VR during the pandemic to provide engagement beyond speech. Our voice-enabled personal health coaches – not so much.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2020

Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Population Health Telehealth Workflow Workforce On the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic, UW has ramped up telemedicine capabilities and made immediate changes to its EHR to support COVID-19 care. Reduce community transmission with patient self-screening.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

As care delivery and consumer expectations change, the traditional fee-for-service model has already morphed into the new era of health-care consumerism – a patient-organized mix of self-care, urgent care, and in-home care, avoiding emergency rooms or long wait for a doctor visit. Healthcare delivery is migrating away from the hospital.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This past year underscored the demographic changes that have brought an aging population -- turning 65 at a rate of 10,000 per day -- into the sight lines of investors, startups and health providers. Our care marketplace connects clients with great, affordable care from pre-health college students. Learn more.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 8, 2023

And many forward-thinking hospitals and health systems are finding significant clinical, financial and operational ROI for their efforts. By Bill Siwicki | August 03, 2023 News Community Health Systems improves chronic condition outcomes with RPM Remote patient monitoring has helped the health system boost patient engagement, improve patient.

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Health Populi

JULY 6, 2021

The ultimate health and wellbeing of an adult depends on the factors that shape us when we are children. A new, deep report from the OECD, Measuring What Matters for Child Well-being and Policies , spells out the many domains of experience that, together, bolster our whole health as we grow from child to adult.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 24, 2023

You may have read this depressing article this morning in the Wall Street Journal about the number of people stuck in hospitals with no place to go because there are no nursing homes to take them – which is the status in the UK’s the National Health System (NHS). That was an embarrassment in the UK – and this is a scandal in the US.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 19, 2020

million in senior living communities, including nursing homes. Some senior living providers have been ahead of the game for some time with telehealth, like Asbury Communities and Holiday Retirement -- offering services for residents at times when physicians cannot be on site. On the other hand, Health 2.0 and here’s home care.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 18, 2020

Kaiser, Director of Geriatric Cognitive Health at the Pacific Brain Health Center and CIO for the Motion Picture & Television Fund. The risks of isolation have negative impacts on physical and mental health. Sanvis Health Care Hero. The benefits of social connection—the antidote—are clear. Learn more at Megilla.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 14, 2023

I’m sharing that image with you here in Health Populi to set the stage for, of course, a discussion of WSJ’s data points through a health/care lens. we’ve got a growing women’s health care desert challenge — that is, a shortage of health care providers on the supply side to care for women’s health.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

But they also have done more work on Amazon Hospitality in partnership with K4Connect (which has rolled out 10,000 Alexa devices to senior living communities). It is not unreasonable that we will someday be able to ask questions about our own specific health issues, documented in our actual health record.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 20, 2020

And, the Covid-19 crisis is highlighting some advantages that small-home communities may enjoy, in being able to maintain a greater sense of normalcy in day-to-day activities.” announced today that it has provided telehealth access and services to the residents of Holiday’s 261 senior living communities. Holiday Retirement and MeMD.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

But adding fall detection as a feature for the 65+ in Apple Health and the watch was a change. Because the technology, even Apple’s, is not intuitive, because the devices connect to the rest of the infrastructure in a community, support is required. No, they don’t want to change the UI or who they hire, apparently. See vendor empathy.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 4, 2023

The new GUIDE program will support caregivers and ‘enable people living with dementia to remain in their homes and communities.’ Consider Optum’s acquisition of Amedisys home health business. category tags: dementia care, cognitive decline , fall prevention, fall detection , Mobile PERS Note its 2015 $72.5

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Worse, for many older adults, isolation is a worsening health issue that we will hear more about as shutdowns continue and shut-in becomes the virtual norm. We’ve seen how technology and innovation in other verticals of healthcare have created better treatments, cost-savings, and health outcomes that have ultimately improved lives.

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